Cursor in lister?

[SanskritFritz]

Is there a special reason that there is no cursor in the lister, and i can select a text only with the mouse?

[Hacker]

Yes, so that you can scroll with Up / Down and don't have to wait until the cursor reaches the lower / upper end of the screen before scrolling starts.

HTH
Roman

[SanskritFritz]

But IMHO selecting ONLY with the mouse is a huge disadvantage, especially when copying large amount of text! Have you tried it? It is frustrating.

[soreno]

Mozilla firebird has a great solution to this.

Shift + arrowkeys selects text.
Arrowkeys scroll the page.

The "carret" is locate where the last click on the page was located.

The carret is not visible.

[SanskritFritz]

Anyway, we all have editors, but Lister is really great with large files. I found, that when selecting a text with the mouse, it is still possible to move the text with the arrow and PageDown keys. That helps a little, even though it is funny when I drag the mouse and with the left hand I press the cursor buttons . Left handed people are in advantege, lol

[ghisler(Author)]

But IMHO selecting ONLY with the mouse is a huge disadvantage, especially when copying large amount of text! Have you tried it? It is frustrating.

You can still use cursor keys, page up/down, home+end while selecting with the mouse! I think that this is a reasonable compromise. I don't want to show a cursor because I hate it when I have to move the cursor to the end of the page until scrolling finally occurs! Lister starts to scroll immediately.

[sqa_wizard]

You can still use cursor keys, page up/down, home+end while selecting with the mouse!

It is very exotic to select text with cursor keys while the mouse button is pressed.

If it is possible to handle a mouse event, it should be possible to handle a SHIFT key too...

[SanskritFritz]

Does anyone know of a viewer or editor, comparable with lister in speed with large files, which handles a cursor? The only reason is copying large pieces of text from really large logfiles.
Or as an alternative, a feature request: optionally switch cursor on. How many would need such a feature?
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[wanderer]

Does anyone know of a viewer or editor, comparable with lister in speed with large files, which handles a cursor? The only reason is copying large pieces of text from really large logfiles.
Or as an alternative, a feature request: optionally switch cursor on. How many would need such a feature?

I'd like it (as an option). Sometimes it is useful.

[SanskritFritz]

Agreed. Help us out people! Vote for it!

[Jonas]

I've already suggested an optional curser for the lister some time ago. Christians comment has been to use the plugin hpg_ed
I'd love a hotkey 'c' to switch a cuser on (for selecting text per keyboard) or off (default, for fast scrolling via keyboard)
I don't know why, but every time when something like this was suggested (a couple of times till yet) christian said he would't implement it
perhaps we can convice him with a poll for an optional curser via 'c' to take advantage of both, curser and no curser.....

[SanskritFritz]

Lets try then... the reason is for using lister really: speed!
I'll start a poll.

[SanskritFritz]

... that is of course if I can, lol. Looks like I cannot start a poll.

[Hacker]

SanskritFritz,

ut IMHO selecting ONLY with the mouse is a huge disadvantage, especially when copying large amount of text! Have you tried it? It is frustrating.

No, I haven't. I am selecting text using the cursor.
j/k

. Looks like I cannot start a poll.

Everyone should be able to start a poll... What went wrong?

Roman

[SanskritFritz]

Everyone should be able to start a poll... What went wrong?

I dont see a "Start new poll" button. Am I missing something?